Kirsten Vice

Vice President – Sustainable Manufacturing & Canadian Operations

Location: Canadian Operations – Montreal, QC

Role

Kirsten launched NCASI’s operations in Canada in 2002 and is responsible for the overall direction of NCASI’s research in Canada, including mill environment and forestry program design and execution, along with the management of interrelationships with Canadian Member Companies, trade associations, governments, and academic researchers. She also provides practical technical support and strategic perspective to Member Companies on the full spectrum of environmentally-related manufacturing and forestry issues facing their operations.

Background

For more than 25 years, Kirsten has worked in various roles within the forest products industry, including work experience in the industry itself, as well as in government, engineering consulting, and environmental research in a variety of locations across Canada, the United States, and Finland. Throughout her career to-date, she has been involved with pertinent analyses of environmental regulations, process engineering, and strategic management of a broad array of sustainability issues relevant to the forest products industry. Since 2002, Kirsten has grown NCASI’s Canadian Operations membership from a single Member Company to now represent roughly half of the Canadian forest products industry. Among her strengths are the strategic assessment of complex environment-, forestry- and sustainability-related issues and designing results-oriented approaches for those in the industry to respond most effectively to these challenges.

Qualifications

International Masters in Pulp & Paper Management, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (1989)